Panther on older G3's, anyone done it?

I've talked with people that have 10.2.6 running on iMac Rev B's (233mhz G3). And with everyone saying that Panther is supposed to run faster than previous version of X, I'm to assume that it's more optimized and *should* run better on older systems as well.

But, I'm more inclined to believe real accounts than I am "should be" 's.
My end product iMac will have 312MB RAM and a 40GB HD(for all the people that will respond telling me it won't run on 4GB HD and 32MB of ram). It has never run OSX, it's going to jump straight from 8.6!!

So has anyone installed Panther on a similar computer? Thoughts on how it runs verses older builds of X, or pre OSX?

Originally posted by Taavi Panther worked great on my dad's old clamshell iBook which is 300mhz and only has 192mbs of ram and a 6 gb harddrive. I'd say go for it however you need built-in usb to run panther apple says.

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Anyone figured out why this is? Did they just stop producing drivers for the old ports?

Originally posted by Earendil I need USB? Well then thank goodness the iMacs were the first computer to live souly off USB and ditch all other forms of connecters!

Earendil
Tyler

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Remember when you were trying to find peripherals for the computer? What a pain... I had some audio software that required a Floppy drive and I ended up having to buy two different drives because of compatibility issues. No serial port for old midi controllers. OMG I spent so much time and money trying to get stuff to work. Thank go that's all in the past. ...er I hope.

I have a Rev A Bondi Blue iMac running Panther right now. It is a bit better than Jaguar. Actually, it is quite usable. I was very impressed. Overall for a first release of a major point release I am very impressed. Of course, I am looking forward to running this on a new iMac (1.25 ghz) but for now I am very pleased.

Just loaded Panther on my Wallstreet G3 500. Upgrade smooth. Had trouble with networked printers - had to delete then add. Also noted that MS Office v.X (Word and PP) crashed while Classic running. No crashes after force quit Classic. Seems quicker the Jag, but no tests.

Originally posted by pottsro Just loaded Panther on my Wallstreet G3 500. Upgrade smooth. Had trouble with networked printers - had to delete then add. Also noted that MS Office v.X (Word and PP) crashed while Classic running. No crashes after force quit Classic. Seems quicker the Jag, but no tests.

Ron

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Is it quicker because it's new and you're excited or do things really open faster?

Originally posted by Taavi Panther worked great on my dad's old clamshell iBook which is 300mhz and only has 192mbs of ram and a 6 gb harddrive. I'd say go for it however you need built-in usb to run panther apple says.

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Any reason this wouldn't be true for a 233mhz iBook (assume I jack up the memory)?

I understand it won't have all the goodies, but it's my mom's, so she won't care. But it would be nice to get us all on the same OS page again.

I put Panther on my old Yosemite (B&W) G3 with 384MB RAM. It runs great so far, even fixed some issues I'd been having with the system that I was beginning to think were hardware related.

Under previous versions of OS X, the system wouldn't wake properly from sleep, requiring a restart. More recently, the system wouldn't boot at all, except in Safe Boot mode. Under Panther, both those issues are resolved (though it's just as likely that the problems were solved when I reformatted the drive using the "write zeroes" feature enabled, something you couldn't do under previous versions).

Originally posted by waxwings I put Panther on my old Yosemite (B&W) G3 with 384MB RAM. It runs great so far, even fixed some issues I'd been having with the system that I was beginning to think were hardware related.

Under previous versions of OS X, the system wouldn't wake properly from sleep, requiring a restart. More recently, the system wouldn't boot at all, except in Safe Boot mode. Under Panther, both those issues are resolved (though it's just as likely that the problems were solved when I reformatted the drive using the "write zeroes" feature enabled, something you couldn't do under previous versions).

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I had issues with my b/w G3. When waking from sleep mode the screen would become static and I would have to restart. This didn't happen until I put 10.2.8 and it wasn't consistant. The other wierd thing is that the hard drive keeps waking from sleep... I am various curious as to performance on the B/W G3... I did upgrade my system to 800mhz from 400.

Don't know about Wallstreet not accepting Panther. Maybe I have a mutant. It's working - I put exposé through its paces today and was pleased.

As for speed, the boot is faster, no question. Apps open about the same it seems, but documents are definitely opening faster - particularly big, complex ones in MS Office suite. Can't figure out why I can't see windows servers anymore when I "go to server". Seems I have to know the addresses for everyone of the dang 200 or so of them.

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